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I finally completed installation of my apartment.I have installed a system of automation KNX (Merten) throughout the house, with an HDPC (core) and an MD 3M touchscreen 17 "whit an atom 330, everything seems to work, but I can not install the drivers "bash - DCE - KNX".

I get to point:After DCE_PATH is set, and exported, you can build the package with this command, in the DCE-whisperer directory:

I finally completed installation of my apartment.I have installed a system of automation KNX (Merten) throughout the house, with an HDPC (core) and an MD 3M touchscreen 17 "whit an atom 330, everything seems to work, but I can not install the drivers "bash - DCE - KNX".

I get to point:After DCE_PATH is set, and exported, you can build the package with this command, in the DCE-whisperer directory:

Go in Lights, add a on/off light. Set its room. Write "$00 $03" (w/o the quotes) in the "Port/Channel number" Device Data

applies to all the lights $00 and $03? where i write my group address?

You need to define some group addresses in your SIM-KNX module that map to actual group address on the bus. The "$00 $03" and "$$ $32" are adresses in a SIM-KNX that map to ports on the bus. The SIM-KNX modules come with either 128 or 256 configurable memory locations that you can read/write to. Each memory location in the SIM-KNX reflects a group address on the actual bus. Therefore you need to program the SIM-KNX using a standard KNX-EIB tool like ETS3 or write your own. See http://www.tapko.de/uploads/tx_neofileshare/SIM-KNX_Documentation.pdf for technical details of the SIM-KNX.

We are looking at creating another version of bash-dce-knx that will talk directly to the KNX-EIB bus and will be implimented with the BCUSDK ( See http://www.usinglinux.org/net/bcusdk-eibd.html ) allowing us to read/write to the bus directly using an IP-KNX gateway.

They are totally different. The SIM-KNX is about the same or less in cost terms however and provides a simpler interface to the bus. SIM-KNX 128 units can be purchased for just over 100Euro.

When we implement bash-dce-knx that will talk directly to the KNX-EIB bus using the the BCUSDK ( See http://www.usinglinux.org/net/bcusdk-eibd.html ) allowing us to read/write to the bus directly using an IP-KNX gateway...This could also be extended to use RS232 interfaces like the Merten.

Hi,I have KNX in my house and are looking at LinuxMCE with great interest. I do the programming with ETS via an IP-KNX gateway but I still don't have anything intelligent running the system (in other words a computer for timers, sceneries, web-interface etc.)

I do find 1500-2000£ to expensive for the systems from Merten, Gira etc. which just are basic computers with a small toch-screen and a user friendly software...So, Linux MCE would of course be a nice and competent solution.

So, since my KNX-system is already a part of my network at home, Is there a qualified guess for when there might be a solution for running the KNX-system from Linux MCE over a IP-KNX gateway?No promises, just an educated guess...

Hi,I have KNX in my house and are looking at LinuxMCE with great interest. I do the programming with ETS via an IP-KNX gateway but I still don't have anything intelligent running the system (in other words a computer for timers, sceneries, web-interface etc.)

I do find 1500-2000£ to expensive for the systems from Merten, Gira etc. which just are basic computers with a small toch-screen and a user friendly software...So, Linux MCE would of course be a nice and competent solution.

So, since my KNX-system is already a part of my network at home, Is there a qualified guess for when there might be a solution for running the KNX-system from Linux MCE over a IP-KNX gateway?No promises, just an educated guess...

Rgds. Jbr

Well adding support for IP-KNX gateways is something we're working on but I cant say what the timescale might be for this. The current SIM-KNX compatible DCE-Whisperer code though works fine with KNX (we have installers using ETS to configure installations with it now) and offers some advantages too. SIM-KNX can be used to abstract the actual bus addresses etc and in someways means you can have a more flexible installation.

So, since my KNX-system is already a part of my network at home, Is there a qualified guess for when there might be a solution for running the KNX-system from Linux MCE over a IP-KNX gateway?No promises, just an educated guess...

we have an EIB driver in our mantis, written in c++, it utilizes eibd, that should be able to do KNX over IP. It might be a bit of work to properly integrate it into 0810, but I can help with that..

it is a DCE wrapper around eibd. Regarding the author it is bi-directional, but I could not verify it as I have no KNX hardware. We need to integrate the patch(es) from that mantis ticket into the 0810 devel branch.